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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 19
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Lot entertains holy men—The men of Sodom seek to abuse Lot’s guests, and are smitten with blindness—Lot sent out of Sodom—The Lord rains brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah—Lot’s daughters preserve his seed in the land.
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And</span> there came <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/1a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 19: 1  . . .  three angels  . . .">two</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/1b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB messengers; TG Angels.">angels</a> to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing <i>them</i> rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
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And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Washing.">wash</a> your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.  And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
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And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hospitality.">feast</a>, and did bake <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Bread, Unleavened.">unleavened</a> bread, and they did eat.
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&#182; But before they lay down, the men of the city, <i>even</i> the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
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And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where <i>are</i> the men which came in to thee this night?  bring them out unto us, that we may <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/5a" mark="a" type="G" title="‘Know’ is used both in Hebrew and English in this kind of context as a euphemism in place of a sexual word; Judg. 19: 22 (22-28); Isa. 3: 9; TG Homosexuality.">know</a> them.
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And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
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And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/8a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 19: 9-15 (Appendix).">Behold</a> now, I have two <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 19: 24 (24-27).">daughters</a> which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as <i>is</i> good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/19/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 18: 5.">came</a> they under the shadow of my roof.
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And they said, Stand back.  And they said <i>again,</i> This one <i>fellow</i> came in to <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 13: 12.">sojourn</a>, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.  And they pressed sore upon the man, <i>even</i> Lot, and came near to break the door.
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But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
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And they smote the men that <i>were</i> at the door of the house with <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 6: 18; Acts 13: 11 (8-12).">blindness</a>, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/12a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 19: 18  . . .  these holy men  . . .">the</a> men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?  son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 2: 2 (1-4); Abr. 2: 6.">bring</a> <i>them</i> out of this place:
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For we will destroy this place, because the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 18: 20.">cry</a> of them is waxen great before the face of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath sent us to destroy it.
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And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 5: 8; D&C 133: 5 (5-14).">get</a> you <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 16: 21 (21-26, 45); Jer. 51: 6; Rev. 18: 4.">out</a> of this place; for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will destroy this city.  But he seemed as one that <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/19/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Mocking.">mocked</a> unto his sons in law.
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&#182; And when the morning arose, then the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angels</a> hastened <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Pet. 2: 7.">Lot</a>, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
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And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> being <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 103: 8; 2 Ne. 1: 3; Alma 32: 22; Moro. 10: 3.">merciful</a> unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
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&#182; And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 26; Mosiah 8: 13; D&C 133: 15.">look</a> not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 30.">mountain</a>, lest thou be consumed.
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And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
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Behold now, thy servant hath found <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a> in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
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Behold now, this city <i>is</i> near to flee unto, and it <i>is</i> a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (<i>is</i> it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
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And he said unto him, See, I have <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 42: 9 (8-9); D&C 96: 6; D&C 124: 75 (74-76).">accepted</a> thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
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Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.  Therefore the name of the city was called <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Little (thing).">Zoar</a>.
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&#182; The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
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Then the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> rained upon <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 13: 10; D&C 14: 2 (2, 8); Gen. 13: 10; Isa. 13: 19; Jer. 49: 18 (18-22); Jer. 50: 40; Amos 4: 11; Zeph. 2: 9; Luke 17: 29; 2 Pet. 2: 6 (1-9); Jude 1: 7 (4-7); 2 Ne. 13: 9; 2 Ne. 23: 19.">Sodom</a> and upon <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 29: 23; Hosea 11: 8.">Gomorrah</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/19/24c" mark="c" type="Q" title="HEB combustible materials (especially sulphur and pitch); Deut. 29: 23; Ezek. 16: 50 (48-50).">brimstone</a> and fire from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> out of heaven;
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And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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&#182; But his wife <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 17.">looked</a> back from behind him, and she became a <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 17: 32 (31-33).">pillar</a> of salt.
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&#182; And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 18: 9 (9, 18); Rev. 19: 3; 1 Ne. 19: 11; 3 Ne. 10: 13 (13-14); Morm. 8: 29 (29-30); D&C 45: 41 (40-41).">smoke</a> of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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&#182; And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 17 (17-19).">mountain</a>, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/31a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 19: 37  . . .  firstborn dealt wickedly, and said  . . .">firstborn</a> said unto the younger, Our father <i>is</i> old, and <i>there is</i> not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, <i>and</i> lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/35a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 19: 39 And they did wickedly, and made  . . .">And</a> they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 9; 2 Ne. 21: 14.">Moab</a>: the same <i>is</i> the father of the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/19/37b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 3: 4; Isa. 15: 1.">Moabites</a> unto this day.
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And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same <i>is</i> the father of the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/19/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 19 (18-19); Ezek. 25: 2.">Ammon</a> unto this day.
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